Braves INF Rodriguez back from disabled list

The Atlanta Braves activated utilityman Sean Rodriguez from the disabled list on Tuesday, five months after undergoing shoulder surgery that was seen at the time as potentially season-ending.

Rodriguez is the Braves’ starting lineup for Monday’s game against the Chicago Cubs, batting seventh and playing third base.

Rodriguez, who agreed to an $11.5 million, two-year contract with the Braves in November, hurt his shoulder when a vehicle he was driving was rammed by a stolen police car in Miami on Jan. 28. The driver of the stolen car was killed. Rodriguez’s wife, Giselle, and two of their children were hospitalized with injuries she said on her Twitter account were not life-threatening.